Travelers to Death Valley can discover golden moments, desert life

Death Valley National Park spins much wondrous magic amid its many rocks. Learn more about the landscape and options for ...

A dramatic stretch of desert is being proposed as California's next national monument

California's proposed monument, encompassing a river in one of the hottest and driest corners of the country, would be larger than Yosemite.
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Why Death Valley’s Native tribe dislikes the park’s name

It’s a menacing name, and not one that all who love it agree with. Saying Death Valley National Park out loud conjures up images of an environment as extreme as the reality: hot, dry and deadly desert ...
The New York Times

120 Degrees and Still They Come: The Allure of Death Valley in the Summer

Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million visitors go there in June, July and August, when temperatures soar. Why? Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million ...
The New York Times

Does Clemson or LSU have the real Death Valley? It’s complicated

The real Death Valley is an actual Mojave Desert valley in eastern California, so named when prospectors perished there during the California Gold Rush of 1849. It has a case as the hottest place on ...